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Python functions cannot have names. In this world view, every function is a nameless, anonymous object. Code like "def to_percent(numbers)" creates a nameless function object, then stores it in a variable called "to_percent".

This is a presentation I gave at a local python user group in Nashville, PyNash. The topic of the night was to pick a lesser-known or up and coming library that many folks may not be aware of yet and give a 10 minute overview.

If you are into cryptocurrency check out Ethereumweekly.com started by a friend. It's a weekly newsletter on all things Ethereum, Blockchain. A good way to understand what the buzz on cryptocurrency is all about.

In this post, we will be trying to make a text classifier that will make use of the 20 news groups dataset originally developed by Ken Lang to classify documents into different categories based on their content.

YAML stands for "YAML Ain't Markup Language" and is mostly used in configuration files. YAML, in contrary to JSON, is made to be very readable and is not designed to be used for api's or other communication protocols. This is because the parsing of a YAML file requires the computer a little bit more effort than parsing a JSON file.

Bokeh is a powerful open source Python library that allows developers to generate JavaScript data visualizations for their web applications without writing any JavaScript. While learning a JavaScript-based data visualization library like d3.js can be useful, it's often far easier to knock out a few lines of Python code to get the job done.